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• With the true spirit of Christianity , ike great author of which was , the moist respectable sense of the appellation , a reformer , to be ^ ver dy to encourage and proniote improvements in religious Opinions and practices , than to be rigidly tenacious of ancient tenets and forms , merely because they Sfife such : and that ( in the words ofa ' good writer *) * Itis an honest ,
impatual , and unprejudiced freedon ^ of thinking and discoursing upon all subjects' whatever , conflicted with humility , decency and information , which ought to distinguish the religion of a Christian from that cf all the world
besides . ' In this manner it may be hoped that the friends of truth , virtue and religion will unite to # &rfy forwards the good Avork of reformation . Npr shall it be doubted , that their united efforts
Will produce the most glorious and happy effects * Yes , I wiliforetel ( &&& iti&y it please the great Lord &f Nature to fill £ 1 therprediction ) , that Ih ^ cloud tvhich was once
* bigger than a inafi ' hand , ' aha 11 f& length sptead over the whole heavens , Jttid water every regioi * ofthetparth with the dews of liekveiriy wisdofti ; that truth shall at hist triumph Over error , charity over persecution , &fid
religion and virtue ov ^ r prbphaneness and immorality ; that all the Marions of the world , subjected to the laws of truth and rfghteousness , shall become tfte spiritual JjiUg ^ btti oP NS od ' , ; afcd tftatf ttie wttole earth shall tte 6 ti 0 fy % ternj | $$ < consecrated \ xtit 6 ti& LordV imsir > - : ' ; " ' ' ' ¦ I ¦| llll ¦
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Extract from a Theol og ical Correspondence . biR , The following extract from a correspondence between a lady
and a doctor in divinity of the church of England , &eejns to rne to deserve a place in your excellent Repository , and may serve as an answer to all persons who wish to recommend defences of the qn and anti-scriptural word used fc > y the sectarians of Rome , Engl « i ? id r
and Scotland , in their addresses to the divinity . " I feel myself much honoured by your referring me to so valuable a work , as there is no question in my mind of your ' s being ; but I must be allowed to decline
the reference . Till 1 fiiicl the word Trinity in the Bible ^ it is a matter of indifference to me what any person explains the word to mean . Its theory formrd ro . part of the system of religion which my
lord and master Christ , tajught me , and what any person in $$ p » r ^ g ^* ingeniousl y but fancifully niay choose to suppose that he comprehends its explanation to be , can be of no authority or impoytaycje toinfe . An ingenious writer has lately , i i ¦ ¦ ¦ * ^ mim —
^**^ * -mm ' I perceive , observecj the ii ^ prp * £ rop r ifeto j of using tlie yoF $ Tr ^ njjty wh ^ n ah En ^ lith ^ r ^ s ^ much Better substituted f ^ j i ^ ^ P < * & * . tfjf ? ^ na&Mbn . ^ t ^ , jw * ffi 4 Trimta ^ n ^ ely $ Q * mmlAf& Kence he recomrnends m $ . ( pi } ovr in « .. JWMkR& ..-. » * ' ° >^« W ? s ^'
. . liEible to an JbltiuiisnftiajQi . twJiw ) ffi s . SJWi ^ W- ^ nP ^ « 4 ? ™ 5 ]} RI | p ^ /™ r >
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< SJJ 6 Extract from a Theological Correspondence *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/16/
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